Manufacture of bbooms



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Broom Machine.

Patented Aug.y1,l1854.

WILLIAM B. WALKER, 0F BENNINGTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

MANUFACTURE or isRooMs.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,451, dated August 1, 1854.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that I, WALKER, of

Bennington,in the county of Hillsboro and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in the Mannfacturing of Brooms and Brushes and I do hereby declare that the following is a full description. y

The nature of my invention consists in compressing the broom cornor .other material and forcing it into a chamber while in a compressed state. a

The first partof the improvement or in- ,vention consists of one entire piece of casting, or otherwise formed, with chamber for the reception of the material of which the broom is made.

This chamber is made of suitable depth and dimensions for the purpose intended either with or without ledges or ribs on the inside for the purpose of better securing the material of which the broom is ma'de on the opposite side of the chamber is a common socket for the introduction of'a handle.

The part is represented on the accompanying drawing by Fig. No. 1.

The second part consists of two clamps with screwsas shown by the accompanying drawing Fig. No. 2 for compressing the material. The first or main clamp is fastened to a suitable bench to which there are gages-as seen in Fig. No. 2for keeping the material in its place. When there is suflicient material for a broom, it is screwed down until sufficiently compressed. The other clamp as seen in Fig. No. 3 is movable and of the same thickness with the depth of the chamber; this clamp is put on and then. screwed firmly down upon the projecting ends of the material; theends being then out off even with the outside, theoutside clamp is taken off, and the ends extend into the chamber, which is driven up to the other clamp; the broom is now taken from the of the chamber and the other more or less wide as the width of the broom is required. After the material is forced into the chamber the broom or brush is taken from the clamp and this chip inserted about midway between the two sides of the chamber and sufficiently driven to confine the material in the chamber. This chip projects outward from the chamber more or less according to the length and stiffness. of the broom required, and is of such a character that no precise length, width or thickness can be exactly specified. After the chip is inserted the broom is sewed in the usual form. What I claim and wish to secure is The process of manufacturing brooms or.

brushes by compressing the material and forcing it into a chamber while in a compressed state and securing it there by means of the chip or other device whereby the same end is obtained.

That the material maybe compressed by other devices than as described above, 'I

am conscious from experiment; therefore 1 it is the'principle practically carried out which I wish to secure by Letters Patent as well as the device by which it is done. The spring catch and trongs mentioned in my caveat filed, I consider as unnecessary.

WILLIAM B. WALKER. Witnesses:

E. B. \Vnsr, L. SMITH.

Nashua, in the county of Hillsboro and State of New Hampshire, ss:

On the twenty-sixth day of January,

scribed for manufacturing brooms; and that he does not know or believe the same was ever before known or used; and that he is a citizen of the United States.

E. B. WEST, Justice of the Peace.

Fig. No. 1; A, socket; B, chamber.

Fig. No. 2, top view with No. "3 in position; E, movable gage; G, side pieces; O O, screws.

Fig. No. 3, movable compressor; C, screw; D, follower.

Fig. No. 4, upright section; G, screw; D, D, follower; E, movable gage; G G, side follower; G, side piece; E, movable gage. pieces.

Fi No. 5, View of broom; A, socket; B, v cham lcer. Dotted lines show position of N0. WILLIAM WALKER 5 6 in place. Witnesses:

Fig. No. 6, chip; F, edge View of same. T. H. GLBBY,

Fig. N0. 7, perspective View; C, screw; 0. W. HARNDEN.

[Fms'r PRINTED 1913.] 

